Gnar vs Leona
How to Beat Leona as Gnar
based on 1,458 Gnar vs Leona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gnar vs Leona Matchup Summary
Best Gnar vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Leona as Gnar
Tips for Playing as Gnar against Leona
Position yourself next to walls to bait your enemies into getting stunned by your ultimate.
Know your strengths! Mini Gnar is fast, squishy, and has high sustained damage. Mega Gnar is slow, tough, and has high burst.
Managing your Rage is very important. Try to time out your transformations so you can get maximum benefit from both forms.
Advice to Win Against Leona
When Leona activates Eclipse, you have three seconds to get away from her before she deals damage.
Only foes in the center of Solar Flare get stunned, so you can often avoid this if you're quick.
Gnar vs Leona Counter Stats
How to Counter Leona with Gnar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize some influential Gnar vs. Leona counter statistics that may help you realize the differences between these two champions. For instance, Gnar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Leona’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Gnar may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Leona. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Gnar often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Leona. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Gnar and Leona
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Who is Better, Gnar or Leona?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Gnar usually loses when taking on Leona, with a 47.9% win rate. Therefore, Gnar makes a bad counter for Leona.
While Gnar does have a lower winrate compared to Leona, when on opposite teams, Gnar also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champ to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Gnar into Leonaas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Gnar has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Leona. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Gnar vs Leona matchups, Leona is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Gnar is a trash counter for Leona. Focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Gnar against Leona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Gnar to counter Leona during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gnar most often picks up much more CS compared to Leona. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Gnar versus Leona build include Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Gnar bought at least these three items in his build, he did much better vs Leona than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Gnar had an average win rate of 47.9% battling Leona with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing Leona as Gnar, Gnar players should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Gnar vs Leona clashes, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.9% winrate overall.
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